Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 2 T2 - Journal of Early Modern Studies SP - 63-89 ID - bbbc159 T1 - "Shakespeare and the Words of Early Modern Physic: Between Academic and Popular Medicine. A Lexicographical Approach to the Plays" AU - Mullini, Roberta PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - medicine LA - English AB - Analyzes medieval and early modern medical vocabulary contained within nine of Shakespeare's plays. Argues that the results "confut[e] the Oxfordian thesis about the impossibility for William Shakespeare the actor to master so many medical words" and demonstrate "the playwright's skill in transforming--rather than inventing--old popular terms." English summary, 63. ER -